This song is so cathartic somehow!! It feels my rage for me and let's me unleash it in this song without judgement. It deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest.
One time, when I was home alone, I was blasting this out through the entire house, but right when the mommy problems part came along, my dad came through the front door, and when he heard it, his exact quote was"that boy ain't right".
As someone who was abused by their mother this song is honestly so on point. It’s also on point when it comes to society at large. I’m just not letting my demons in. They can go on somewhere else
Just canalize it on other activities. Arts are a great option. Also try sports. You dont need to fool yourself pretending you dont feel sadness or rage; just use them to do something productive. Write a story, make a song, paint a painting, create a sculpture. Its heathy that way.
@Clara J Who does evil, pays for it later on, if not on this plan, another plan. If he did something bad to you he will feel the regret, it is not nice to wish bad things to others, karma just happens.
For the people who think this songs speaks about his mother, seriously. He speaks about the society and how it hits someone. Its a deep song and people must realise that THIS is music and how it puts "mother" as a word to describe something like society.
***** This is what I think why it's about society. When society (people around you) hit you bad, you get depressed. If the whole bullying thing lasts for long, you become a dark person ("you've woken up a demon in me", "looking at my own reflection when suddenly it changes" "inside you the sickness is rising" etc). In the part with mother, it is quite well explained. At the beginning, you're like "why is society so mean to me, it hurts" and you're sad. But society "hits you and hits you", you get angry and you start hating the society out of revenge and start getting homicidal thoughts ("sadistic abusive whore", "wanna know how it feels mommy, get ready to die!"). At least this is my opinion, since I had the same experience a few years ago.
I though it was about in domestic advise, otherwise he wouldn't of referred at the object of his rage as mommy. Naturally, just like everything else, this can have multiple meanings depending on the person. However I think that the intended message is about anise in the family.
I remember my brother and I would play this on PS3, I can’t remember if the game was called guitar hero or something else, but my dad would sing this and let me tell you he really got into it. He was jumping around yelling/singing into the mic. Definitely one of my favorite memories 😌
I laughed at the part that starts at 3:27 the first time i heard it. But in actuality, it's a sad situation that happens too often. Certain parents refuse to believe mental illness is a thing and think the kid just isn't being punished or threatened to act "right" enough.
Actually in that bit, where lead singer David Draiman acts out a skit where he is being abused by his mother, he's symbolizing how "mother society" abuses "her" children for not being the way "she" thinks they should. "She" keeps doing it until "her" children get sick of it and are so angry with her and themselves they go out and get revenge for it, most likely by killing the people that hurt them ("here it comes, get ready to die!") A good example of this would be the school shootings that go on around the country. But it can also mean different things for different people. Like with me, I'm a survivor of physical, emotional, and verbal abuse from both my biological mother and my stepmother. "No mommy, don't hit me" is something I'd always say during my beatings. It really is fascinating how people interpret that section of the song.
@@profoundlymorose I was physically mentally and emotionally abused by my mother since I know until I was 19. You hit the head on the nail with your description. These songs speak our truth.
I think the tribalistic drumming in the intro is really what makes the song. Gets you pumped up into a primal rage and the rest of the song carries it through
Top 5 of my favorite Disturbed songs: 5.Down with the Sickness 4.Stricken 3.Indestructible 2.Inside the Fire 1.Haunted Even though I rated all of them and I know everyone has different opinions, I think we can ALL agree: Disturbed is FUCKING awesome. :)
Sorry for being 8 years late. But the fact everyone will have a different list and even the fact that 8 years on I'm still coming here does prove your point
I remember trying to copy the “oh wahahahah” part in class with my friends (everyone was talking in the class so I wasn’t shy bc only my friends were looking at me) and it was my turn to try and I went “OH WAHAHAHAH!” Out loud and I accidentally had a voice crack and then suddenly the class was silent and everyone looked at me and the teacher said “are you done goofing around?” It was embarrassing. I didn’t hear the teacher tell us to stop talking so when everyone stopped talking, I was just yelling “OH WAHAHAHAH!”
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I listened to this song MANY times on the radio when it came out. My mom was in the car a couple times... later on I bought the CD with her in the car... I found out there is a difference between the CD version and the radio version.... had to quickly mute it as a teenager
My parents think they're a Christian band because they never heard them and I lied so I could listen to them before I turned 18. I'm 18 now maybe I should come clean and tell them that Disturbed is far from Christian.
This song perfectly captures my rage from my childhood. 'cept my mother was amazing, so was my father. But my school, its student body, and its faculty? Fucked me for life. that was almost 13 years ago now, and I still carry the scars on my body and psyche.
Song describes my childhood to a T. Had huge anger problems and did protect myself when old enough to although didn't kill my abuser. I was able to break that cycle with my own children thankfully. Promised myself that my kids wouldn't go through that earlier in life.
this was actually in a zombie movie "dawn of the dead" (I think, I cant really remember the name) a jazz sounding cover was in the movie and this was in the credits. it comes on syfy every so often
@Kanenums @Metalhead 666 plus eminem is good if you want to admit it or not. and it doesnt have any connection if you hear metal or not hell i hear metal even death and core and i can switch after that to bob marley and reggae in general is it so hard to understand that there is some people that like alot of genres even if its completely the opposite ?
This is about how society treats people who are "different." A lot of people think they are "sick" and "wrong" and want nothing to do with them. In the middle of the song, lead singer David Draiman acts out a skit where he is being abused by his mother (not in the radio version). Finally, he builds up enough courage and hits her right back. This is used to symbolize how "mother society" abuses "her" children for not being the way "she" thinks they should. "She" keeps doing it until "her" children get sick of it and are so angry with her and themselves they go out and get revenge for it, most likely by killing the people that hurt them ("here it comes, get ready to die!") A good example of this would be the school shootings that go on around the country. Getting "Down With The Sickness" means accepting people for who they are so we can all function better.
That's... huh. You really made an impact with this. I'm not being sarcastic, I actually read and re-read it and really thought about it. Also, it suddenly makes the line "will you give it to me?" make sense; society being afraid that people who are different will "infect" them with their different-ness.
3:11 I can relate to this part... Because my trauma scenarios always come when my eyes were closed. Specially earlier, I dreamed about it again. Not my mother though, but her brother did bad to me. I forgave him already but the flashbacks suddenly... 😞
These are just words but, there mercy from the one who created everything. You have been trained and kept close by the hand of the mercy it self, none of your precious tears has fall for nothing. It woke the demon in you, the earth itself had raged, you could be the sickness too. But in the hands of mercy, you look at the reflection of yourself, you see the angel.
I'll never forget my mom telling me about how once she was listening to this in the car and the guy next to her at a stoplight said "Do you have a bunch of monkeys in the trunk or what?!"
someone told me that listening to heavy metal or listening to any other form of rock music is sick an perverted...then i must be one sick perverted fucker cuz' i'm down with the sickness.
